My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer

My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer

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Long out of print, the autobiography of the cavalry leader, offering a day-to-day account of his campaigns and telling of the horrors of Indian warfare. First published in the USA and imported for distribution.

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My Life on the Plains by George Armstrong Custer

Two years before the Battle of Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer published a series of reminiscences concerning his participation in the U.S. Army's 1867-69 campaigns against the Plains Indians. In addition to its value as a document of military history, this book offers fascinating insights into the notorious general's character, from his enthusiasm for self-mythologizing to the rash behavior that led to his fatal mistakes.
George Armstrong Custer was an 1861 West Point graduate and a dashing officer in the United States Cavalry during the Civil War.

Edgar I. Stewart, who provided an illuminating introduction and notes, was a distinguished Western historian, perhaps best known for his incomparable account of the events leading to the Custer disaster-Custer's Luck, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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ISBN 13 9780806113579
ISBN 10 080611357X
Title My Life on the Plains
Author George Armstrong Custer
Series The Western Frontier Library Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Oklahoma Press
Year published 1976-07-30
Number of pages 448
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.